Truth Quotes
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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
Epictetus
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For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.
Saint Augustine
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
Gautama Buddha
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If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart...
Carrie Newcomer
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It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
Walt Whitman
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That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.
Patricia Christine Hodgell
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Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
Denis Donoghue
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What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah
N. T. Wright
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
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In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
Bradley Denton
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God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
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Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.
John Stuart Mill
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
Sophocles
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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Saint Augustine
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All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!
Leila Slimani
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When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.
André Brink
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Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
John Arbuthnot
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Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
Joanne Rowling
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The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.
Clint Smith
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
Twyla Tharp
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Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
Randy Alcorn